Friday, 11 January 2013

I realise it's a while since I wrote a new post so before we are too far into 2013 I thought I'd get some pictures online from Christmas 2012.
With a new baby and only recently having returned we decided to spend the holidays relaxing at home. It was lovely. Plenty of time to relax together at home or by the pool. We also enjoyed Christmas Day puddings and New Years Eve with our extended MAF family, playing games and then at midnight watching the fireworks in the town centre from the top of the hill we live on.
We are now settled back into life in Uganda...as much as one can with the changing routines of a new baby.
Abigail is now 3 months old and a healthy (7kg) happy baby. She thrilled both sets of grandparents with smiles as we Skyped on Christmas Day!
Amy and Joshua are doing well at school and love to spend time with Abigail as soon as they get home...got to fit the homework into the schedule too somewhere?
Mark enjoyed the break from work, and kept himself busy with various projects in the garage over the holidays. Now it's back to maintaining aircraft and various other projects around the hangar. Abigail has already been out to visit Daddy at the hangar three times...hopefully a place she will come to enjoy visiting as much as her brother and sister do!

The Newnham Family

We come from quite different backgrounds (Sarah, a well-travelled Missionary Kid and Mark having grown up in a Christian family in the same town his whole life).We were married in 1999 having met at our home church in Gillingham, Kent. Here Sarah worked as a speech and language therapist and Mark as a Quality Technician for BAE Systems. In 2000, we felt called to full-time mission service abroad.

Mark trained to become an aircraft maintenance engineer with Missionary Maintenance Services in Ohio, USA and we then served with MAF in Uganda from 2005 -2016 where Mark worked as an aircraft maintenance engineer.

In 2016 we moved to Liberia with our three children where Mark is now serving as Chief Engineer as part of the new and growing team in Liberia.

We are privileged to have a team of supporters behind us who pray, or give, or both.